The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Yan Kesong led the three armies to Polo Castle.

Polo Castle is an important town in the Nine Frontiers. It is located in Yulin Town, one of the passes often chosen by the Tatars to enter and exit the northwest hinterland.

At the current marching speed, they will reach Polo Castle by dusk tomorrow.

"Duke Baoguo has committed a capital crime. His Majesty summoned you back to Beijing, and you disobeyed the order for the second time. No one can save your head." Miao Kui reminded and warned.

Admiral Shi Lin has been summoned back to Beijing.

Chen Shou replaced Shi Lin and became the admiral of the Beijing Army. Miao Kui is still the military supervisor of this expedition.

Zhu Hui followed by him, not caring at all: "When this Duke refused to hand over the seal, he didn't want to live. If you want to punish him on behalf of His Majesty, just chop off his head."

Miao Kui was speechless. He had sent someone back to Beijing to report. His Majesty's imperial edict had not arrived yet. Who dared to do anything to Duke Baoguo?

In the previous dynasty, Wan Guifei's brother Wan Xi was tyrannical and amassed wealth, and took human lives lightly.

When His Majesty was the crown prince, he knew all about this, and he had a deep grudge with Wan Guifei.

For people like Wan Xi, after His Majesty ascended the throne.

Not only did he not kill him, he did not put him in prison, but he only confiscated his money and let him live as a commoner.

Former cabinet minister Wan An, one of the three cabinet elders, was notorious for his bad deeds, but His Majesty did not chop off his head, and let him retire and enjoy his old age.

His Majesty forgave too many people.

He is a kind person.

Baoguogong followed his father to make many military exploits since he was a child. After becoming a duke, he fought several times. Except for Yinggong, no one could match him.

What if His Majesty did not want to chop off Baoguogong's head, he would kill Baoguogong first...

Yan Kesong and Miao Kui thought of the same thing.

When he was in Hanyuan, he edited countless books of the previous dynasty and knew a lot of obscure things.

The eunuchs Wang Zhi and Liang Fang of the previous dynasty were all guilty of one crime, but His Majesty didn't kill any of them.

I heard from Cheng Jin that a few years ago, when Jianchang Bo entered the palace for a drink, he wore His Majesty's imperial crown and was only beaten with a stick...

Your Majesty's temperament is hard to figure out, so how to deal with Baoguo Gong is still up to His Majesty.

The imperial decree has not come, if His Majesty only wants to deprive Baoguo Gong of his title and make him a commoner.

Or he can hand it over to the Ministry of Justice for trial.

He killed Baoguo Gong, and His Majesty asked him about his crime...

"In my opinion, the factory guards have not arrived in the capital yet. Why doesn't Baoguo Gong return to the capital to plead guilty and ask for a lighter punishment before His Majesty gets angry?"

"No need to say more, I naturally know the consequences, you should think about how to deal with the Tatars

It will take two days to reach Polo Castle. I'm afraid that by the time we reach Polo Castle, the Tatars will have withdrawn their troops."

Two days is enough for the Tatars to rob a city and retreat calmly.

The Tatars have always liked to fight to support themselves.

That is, they only carry a few days' worth of dry food, and the rest depends on looting or spoils of war.

Therefore, the Tatars march very fast.

The lack of dragging baggage is an important reason.

Yan Kesong shook his head firmly: "No, I have arranged the Nine-square tactic. If the Tatars withdraw from Polo Castle, they will alarm other garrisons and send urgent reports to me."

The Nine-square tactic is like a net.

When you withdraw from this point, you will be discovered when you pass other points.

If you deliberately draw the place where the Tatars appear, you can quickly get their movement trajectory.

So as to determine the area where they appear.

At night, Yan Kesong ordered people to camp and repair in the Gobi Desert.

At night, the wind and sand are strong, and it is easy to hide your whereabouts and attack.

He ordered people to increase the number of patrols and sent people to hide one mile away from the camp. If there is a situation, send a signal to avoid being attacked by the Tatars.

In Ningxia, he suffered a loss once.

The Tatars are very adaptable to the windy and sandy climate and the night.

"If we don't receive urgent news tonight, it means that the Tatars are still in Polo Castle."

Yan Kesong dared to conclude.

At first, Zhu Hui laughed at his strategy, but now he found that this strategy is indeed outstanding, and can use static to control dynamic and find the traces of the Tatars.

The only disadvantage is that the troops are scattered.

If they encounter the Tatars, they will lose the advantage of cavalry.

But now, Yan Kesong has ordered the remaining thousand households to lead the army to gather in Polo Castle.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next morning, Yan Kesong ordered people to set off immediately. After three hours of marching, they arrived at Polo Castle near dusk.

"As I said, Dayan Khan withdrew his troops." Zhu Hui said.

Polo Castle was in a mess, houses collapsed, pots and pans were thrown into the street, and rice jars were smashed all over the ground. It was obvious that the Tatars had robbed the food.

"They may not withdraw. When the Tatars attack, they always like to make a feint to the east and attack the west, and point south and attack north. It is obvious that we found the Tatars here, but they always managed to kill them from behind." Chen Shou was sure.

What do you mean?

The Tatars are arrogant and deliberately lured us here?

"It is impossible. If they want to go to war with us, why do they always hide when our prince leads his troops into the Hetao?"

"The prince has rarely fought with the Tatars. May I ask the prince, what is the most important thing in marching and fighting?" Yan Kesong launched the Yan family soul torture.

"Of course it is food and grass!"

"Yes, the Tatars entered the pass without food. Now they are looting everywhere. The intercepted food and grass are enough to fight with our army."

This is also the border. If we lose, the Tatars can escape back to the depths of the grassland with a horse escape.

Yan Kesong was secretly shocked.

After not seeing each other for a few months, Dayan Khan is getting more and more cunning.

"Starting tonight, the main force will begin to rotate, with this place as the core. Each military camp must not exceed fifty steps, waiting for the return of our Ming cavalry."

The Tatars' advantage is cavalry.

Ningxia's cavalry can fight, but now they are divided into small groups and sent out.

His main force only has 4,000 cavalry, and the remaining 30,000 are infantry. There is news that the Tatar cavalry has 40,000.

At night, Liu Ning, the thousand households in charge of guarding the camp, came back to report.

"General, a small group of Tatar cavalry was found wandering in the valley one mile away. Should we fight or not?"

Yan Kesong was shocked. Dayan Khan's grandson really didn't leave.

"You still want to play fishing enforcement, I will do it too."

Zhu Hui, Chen Shou and others were confused.

What is the tactic of fishing enforcement?

Yan Kesong excitedly sent Liu Ning with 200 cavalry to wander in front of the Tatars.

"Dayan Khan's army must be in the valley!"

As long as the Tatar army is lured over and the three-door red general is waiting for him, the Tatars will suffer heavy losses.

Zhu Hui's face was solemn. He couldn't find the Tatars before, and now he really had to fight.

The Ming army won a great victory, and maybe His Majesty will be lenient in punishment.

Yan Kesong was also worried.

Before, they occupied the city wall and fought a large-scale battle with Dayan Khan. Now that the city wall is gone, it's like not wearing crotch pants...

A little unconfident.

Liu Ning led a hundred people to the valley one mile away, and indeed saw a small group of Tatar camps.

He rode his horse and kept shouting in front of the Tatar camp.

"Qian Hu, what if they don't move?" asked a captain.

"You, come down, take off your pants, and dance for them." Liu Ning said.

The captains all blushed.

The Tatars looked a little confused.

I saw these Ming soldiers not only shouting back and forth outside the camp, but also dancing at the door of their homes. Dancing was fine, but they didn't wear pants and lit a bonfire to "show off their masculinity", as if they were showing how masculine they were.

"Who are you looking down on?"

The anger of the Tatars was all aroused.

The grassland dances to worship the Eternal Heaven.

Their dancing like this was the biggest insult to Changshengtian.

The Tatars were furious, and they rode their horses and rushed over with murderous intent.

The captains saw that if they were late, the chickens would be killed, so they hurriedly pulled up their pants and mounted their horses.

"They've taken the bait, lead them back and kill them!" Liu Ning said.

The Tatars' vanguard force had at least 300 people, and they were no match for them. If they ran another mile back, they would be able to join the main force.

A fast horse rushed forward, leading the way, and rushed back to the camp to report to Yan Kesong: "General, the Tatars are coming."

"Will Dayan Khan attack the camp tonight?" Miao Kui asked hurriedly.

"With Dayan Khan's temperament, he will definitely launch a surprise attack. Tell all the troops to prepare to fight back!"

Lin Song was not around, and there was one less brave general who could charge.

Not only that, all the thousand and hundred households in the Beijing camp were sent out.

Yan Kesong cast his eyes on Zhu Hui and Chen Shou.